Bending Copper Pipe

An instructional video on how to make a passover bend in copper pipe.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Bending copper pipe
• plumbing skills
• tube bending
• plumbing

[chrislemin]

The video was made by a group of my students as part of a level one plumbing qualification. The actual bend as demonstrated was merely a vehicle. The plan behind it was to make an aid memoire for their own use whilst learning at the college. Yes it is a little fiddly for site work, but a building site is hardly the best place to learn the basics. Also a video of a trained craftsman manipulating copper pipe whilst a joy to behold, would not offer assistance to beginners.

[maccagrabme]

@chrislemin Very helpful and made a lot of sense compared to the plumbing book I have. Can I ask regarding step six, what is the significance of getting the 2nd bend point as you show compared to the wrong way? What difference would it make doing it the other way? I've been shown a different method to this which looks similar to the wrong way!

thank you.

[chrislemin]

@maccagrabme The significance of getting the line to kiss the edge of the bender on the tangent is because we measured the line from the bottom of the pipe. If you don't do that your legs will be unequal. I am guessing you are measuring along the centre of the pipe and therefore your line will be half a pipe diameter one side or the other?

[booshallmighty]

So, if I want to bend a pipe , I have to take the morning off?

[mdc2051]

fine for college bit fiddly for site work

[Todd04041951]

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[plumberparts]

Really good video. Thinking fo doing one ourselves but more of an 'on site' version. When we do I'll link to this. Well Done.

[StoneeV6]

this helped to get my head round a bit more lol. im learning copper pipe bending and im getting really confused on marking out but this has eased the confusion some what, thanks. well done for uploading, any more on the way ? lol.

[wyng56]

love this vid. learned more from this than my tutors at college & am now doing crank passovers in minutes thanks t o the tips i picked up from this.

Big thanks

[blueange1s]

Very nice job ,but could done away without the Jose an explain your video clip more exactly

[joop1977]

nice job

[brianliz1000]

for 5gregaliz5

where do i start c&g plumbing ,c&g advanced plumbing(when it was written exams ,not abcd try again) ,ccn1cen1 met1, hrt 1,ckr1,regt 1,e1,e4,e3,e5,cscs,energy efficiency,stop me when you have had enuff or the alchohol/substances wear off due to the magic mushrooms coming back on you

[5Gregallz5]

@chrislemin omydays he is doing a how to do it video init so hes gonna do step by step init omydays big up to him cause before i knew fuck all on how to bend it i used to get it arse over bollock and pissed as arseholes so dont complain cause yall aint plumbers init well done

[5Gregallz5]

@brianliz1000 er bruv proper plumbers HAVE to use a tape cause they need to know whut to measure init otherwise its either too small or too big i doubt if your a plumber to be honest if you arks me